Jules M. Seletz graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1953 as a second lieutenant and the Chicago Medical School in 1958 with an MD. Following five years of postgraduate training at the Boston City Hospital, he practiced as a General and Peripheral Vascular Surgeon for 35 years.
He enjoyed a 41-year military career in the United States Army, with a 15-year civilian break in service, rising to the rank of colonel after starting out as a second lieutenant in 1953 in the field artillery during the Korean conflict. He deployed as a military surgeon to Morocco in North Africa in 1985, to West Germany in 1987, to Botswana in Sub-Sahara Africa in 1989 and finally, to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in Southwest Asia in 1991 during Desert Storm. Retired from the Army in 1994 while stationed at West Point, Dr. Seletz served for the next seven years as a physician surveyor for JCAHO?the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
JCAHO is the nationally and internationally accepted accrediting body for the healthcare industry. During those seven years, Dr. Seletz had several occasions to survey hospitals that have experienced untoward incidents, mishaps and catastrophic outcomes known as sentinel events. He has written five mystery/medical thrillers that involve sentinel events: Sentinel Event; Not Another Sentinel Event; Code Pink, A Sentinel Event; West Point's Sentinel Event and Sentinel Event on the High Seas.
Dr. Seletz is a part-time resident of Marblehead, Massachusetts, but lives and writes in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in the heart of the White Mountains where he enjoys skiing and mountain hiking with his wife of Acadian heritage. Together, they have seven children and twelve grandchildren. He is also the author of a Quartet of historical fiction, Pass In Review, that mirrors his own life during the twentieth century that begins with his father's emigration from Russia at the turn of the last century and ends with the publication of his novels at the beginning of this century. Pass In Review includes Book One, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Book Two, Jacob's Ladder; Book Three, Jacob's Travels and Book Four, Jacob's Novels. For his wife and her progeny, he wrote Pulp, Potatoes, and Ployes, a novel depicting an Acadian Odyssey and the formation of his wife's birthplace, Fort Kent, Maine,
When residents of Lincoln, New Hampshire, learned that Dr. Seletz had written a novel that described the establishment of Fort Kent, Maine, in Pulp, Potatoes, and Ployes, they asked, "Why not one about the creation of Lincoln, New Hampshire?" Early into researching the history of the area, he discovered the formation of this mill town back in 1892 when railroad logging was widely used to be utterly fascinating. So another book of historical fiction, describing this, with a background of United States history, was born. It was entitled Lincoln Logs.
